Women are right. There SHOULD be more women in senior positions and in the boardroom. But they need to recognise the implications of a simple reality: individuals are promoted to senior positions, not groups. So why are many women seeking to progress collectively through gender equality initiatives rather than through their individual merits? Talented women who reach the boardroom typically find such initiatives patronising. Some widely-held assertions about the genders in the workplace: - women's progression into the upper levels of organisations has long been hampered by overt and covert discrimination against women exercised by the men (and sometimes the women) already holding senior positions - the 'glass ceiling' - men aren't more likely than women to have qualities which make them fit for senior positions. Women, conversely, are more likely than men to have such qualities, including higher emotional intelligence, consensual decision-making styles... - more women would seek advancement if they felt inspired by more role models (but who will be the role models' role models?) A former business executive with over 30 years' experience in major corporations and business consultancy critiques 30 assertions about men and women generally and in the workplace - including 'the glass ceiling' - and finds them all to be variously delusions, fantasies, lies or myths. He reveals the real reasons why more women don't reach senior positions. More gender equality will result when more hardworking talented women recognise that to progress they will have to do so individually, not collectively. How hard can that be? Harder than beating the drum for gender equality initiatives, certainly, but possibly more effective too? Corporations pursuing gender equality initiatives are engaging in a social engineering experiment which could prove ruinous both for them and for society at large. Militant feminists - a small but vocal band of angry women embracing a Marxist ideology, as the book explains - are behind campaigns for gender balance among senior executives. Why are corporations trying to placate a small band of angry Marxists? The book reviews the state of gender equality legislation in the United Kingdom where David Cameron, a Conservative prime minister and head of a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats, has enacted 90% of The Equality Bill (2010). The Bill was the crowning glory of the career of Harriet Harman, a militant feminist Labour politician.

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'The Glass Ceiling Delusion' attacks head-on the militant feminist myth that men and women have the same interests and capabilities. Reviewing a wide range of evidence, he shows that the under-representation of women in senior positions in business has nothing to do with discrimination and ‘glass ceilings’, and that attempts to impose quotas are therefore fundamentally flawed. A polemical book with an important message.Peter Saunders, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Sussex University

The Glass Ceiling Delusion is an important and brave book, the best book on social economics and society in general published for decades. It’s irresistibly compelling, cogently argued and superbly put together. It should be in all school and college libraries. It should be compulsory reading for social science, economics and politics students. It should be force-fed to male and female politicians. This is definitely a five-star book. Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant.Dr Vernon Coleman, bestselling English author

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About the Author

Mike Buchanan, 53, is a British writer of eight books published since 2008. Before taking early retirement in 2010 at the age of 52 to focus on writing full-time, he had been an executive with major corporations for over 30 years. His books are, in reverse chronological order: THE GLASS CEILING DELUSION (the REAL reasons more women don't reach senior positions) DAVID AND GOLIATHA: David Cameron - heir to Harman? THE JOY OF SELF-PUBLISHING THE MARRIAGE DELUSION: the fraud of the rings? (hardback) THE FRAUD OF THE RINGS (paperback edition of THE MARRIAGE DELUSION) BUCHANAN'S DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS for right-minded people BUCHANAN'S DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS for right-minded Americans TWO MEN IN A CAR (a businessman, a chauffeur, and their holidays in France) GUITAR GODS IN BEDS. (Bedfordshire: a heavenly county) PROFITABLE BUYING STRATEGIES (How to cut procurement costs and buy your way to higher profits)

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The book explores issues around the percentage of women in 'high office'..... without being constrained by political correctness. The text also serves as a 'feminism for dummies' introduction to the history and assertions of third wave feminism. I learned a huge amount... the historic context of suffrage, the difference between equal opportunity and equal outcome, why the 'gender pay gap' is a fallacy and has been discredited for years and so on.

The author has written in a humorous, polemical style so the reader needs a certain robustness and sense of humour. I thought the approach was effective - the author is after all expressing some modern heresies. Whilst the book is not crammed with data and graphs, the references are there if you want to dig deeper into the subject and test some of the assertions.

There is another category of reader that might enjoy this book. Are you bemused by all the 'gender equality' initiatives that that seem to favour women and result in men being misrepresented, disadvantaged or maligned? When you listen to feminist ideology, do you detect a scent of double speak, hypocrisy and confused thinking? Do you ever wonder how we got here, with UK politics obsessed by feminist rhetoric and gender politics? If you ever ask these questions, chances are you will find some relief and answers in this book.

Mr Buchanan has written The Glass Ceiling Delusion in a logical and unemotive manner which the militant feminists will hate because usually they become very defensive when anyone male or female has the temerity to questions the validity of their misandric agenda....I wonder why? When an opposing view is given the militant feminists generaly uses "shaming tactics" towards men or women to crush dissent by shouting misogynist or sexist or quoting the many unsubstantiated statistcis they use that historically and usually have questionable truth or validity. The author is likely to be on the receiving end of some pretty adverse comments from militant feminists for writing some truths about the positve discrimination given to elevate women to boards based on special treatment rather than meritocracy/ability.However he should be thanked for identifying the lengths to which militant feminists will go to secure advantage/superiority not equality for women and girls at the expense of men and boys.Most people ,men and or women, do not much mind who runs our corporations/SME's Politics or Academia so long as the rise to the top is based on ability and meritocracy but according to Mr Buchanan the militant feminists do not accept that and demand quotas for a small unrepresentative group of women.This book should be read by the CEO's of all corporate/SME organisations ,the media, acedemia and all politicians to get a real balanced understanding of what is going on undemocratically in the name of militant feminism and backed by many uninformed politicains including and particularly Mr Cameron.

I have read a number of books on the subject of the destrucive militant feminist agenda and The Glass Ceiling Delusion is in my view in the top five along with a new book entitled Why Britain Hates Men;Feminism Exposed by Swayne O'Pie which is also a 5* read..

'The Glass Ceiling Delusion' is an excellent commentary on the controversial issue of women's progress into senior positions in organisations in general, and in commercial organisations in particular. The book is chock-full of relevant facts and clear arguments on the subject.

The author lists and comments on "The top 20 reasons why female executives are uncommon in the most senior levels of major businesses." He immediately follows this by setting out what he believes to be the consequences of forcing women into senior positions regardless of their fitness for those positions.

The book is a "must read" for business people, academics, Human Resources professionals, all women who want to succeed in business, and indeed any other interested parties, as it outlines the case against 'improving' gender diversity in the senior reaches of large commercial organisations.

Those who may be concerned about the meaning of the book's subtitle, "The real reasons more women don't reach senior positions", can be assured that this reviewer could not find even a trace of misogyny in the words penned by the author.

Mike Buchanan's book lays bare the true nature of 'improving' Gender Diversity in the workplace, namely that it is nothing more than blatant, dangerously counter-productive social engineering.